Senga Nengudi has been pushing the boundaries between sculpture, photography and performance for over four decades. A pioneering member of the African American avant-garde in Los Angeles and New York during the 1970s and eighties, Nengudi is pictured here during her 1977 performance series, R.S.V.P. For this, the artist created various sculptures from sand-filled, stretched and knotted nylon tights, symbolic of the changes her body underwent during pregnancy. Thereafter, she and a group of enlisted performers enacted an entangled dance among the webbed forms as a powerful “reflection and re-creation of [women’s] social limits”. (Sprüth Magers)
